Cancellation reasons

Basic economics, heating oil price has gone off the scale. All those city folks who’ve decided to work at home from some rural idyll need to factor heating costs into the equation!

Twos - it's not Wherenext attacking the BBC! He was replying to an earlier post blaming them and pointing out, as I did, that ITV, C4 and Sky were all saying the same thing. You'll have to read back a couple of pages for the original post.

There was an haulage expert on GB News recently 🤔 yesterday I believe he said the reason for the  hike in fuel prices was..... wait for it 😁 * Price Drift *😮.

Apparently that's where the cost of recently purchased crude oil price catches up with the forecourt cost of fuel & it gets more expensive 😮 I say b*llocks it's pure profit driven greed by the big garage chains that have fuel, & where the small independent filling stations have to have what's given them. 

+1👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻. When it goes up to match crude prices it does it in leaps & bounds, when crude checks & falls it comes down at the pumps ‘the next month’ because that’s how they do it🤣🤣. When it coming down it’s by the odd penny per litre. The Govt has given them free reign to do whatever by suspending the competition rules. Translation-‘everyone’s(big oil) snout can now be in the trough at once’. 

I've only just read this thread as I was away on holiday near North Berwick while all this was going on. During my stay I paid two visits to Tesco ( driven by the small capacity of the caravan freezer ) and on the first visit there was a single customer at their pumps, and on the second none at all, and the prices seemed reasonable.

Not too bad here in N Warks.  One petrol station was putting a limit of £30 for fuel but the supermarket just over the hill in Tamworth seem fine...  Queues are no more than the usual busy forecours at Sainsbury's and Asda.

I have booked a couple of sites in November with the hope that all will be well by then, but the last thing anyone wants is to travel out to a site and not be able to get back at the end of your stay..... but, at the moment, judging from what I see locally, it's not too bad....

David

To link cancellations and fuel shortages I came across something interesting. We had booked Henley a while ago but could only get three days. By chance I went on yesterday and there is availability all through October and November for both awning and non awning pitches. Now unless they have changed their minds about taking grass pitches out of operation it seems very strange that there is now so much availability when two weeks ago it was virtually fully booked?

David

We are at Stamford this Sunday , I phoned the site this morning just to confirm the arrival time, for some reason for the last 2 years we've been I was under the impression that it was 1 pm  & we arrived after 1 🤔 its 12am.

Anyway the warden said whatever time you arrive, you're on  hardstanding, so it looks like the grass pitches are finished till next season. 😉😁

We're off just down the M42 to Chapel Lane soon, but I've booked a serviced pitch.  I also need to pop home for a dental appointment whilst away, so it will be a bit of an odd few days.  Determined to get away in the caravan before our daughter and son-in-law come down to stay from the Outer Hebrides.... and, of course, our new grandson, Euan!

David

We haven't had to worry about fuel thanks to our EV (it takes 8 pints of petrol so no problems there as that lasts for a long time) but our motorhome was half empty and we're off to see the family in the midlands and north east fairly soon. OH went out today (Somerset) our nearest village garage was limiting fuel to £15 and the next two garages a bit further away had a £30 limit (with someone on duty checking!!) We are now filled up at £1.49.9 per litre. It's going to be an expensive trip!